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WP Maintenance

WordPress maintenance

We offer preventive maintenance, corrective intervention, and progressive development

Once your site is online, it is essential to monitor it and ensure regular maintenance so that your WordPress site is always up to date, optimized and secure… it’s like for your car, you need to make revisions in order to avoid breakdowns and above all choose your mechanic carefully!

At Zer.re, when we create a WordPress site or application we then almost always ensure preventive, evolutionary or corrective maintenance to ensure that the project always remains on top: updates to the core of WordPress, extensions, code , backups, security and real-time monitoring, we keep an eye on your site and take care of it as if it were our own…

But why maintain a site created with WordPress?

WordPress is a free and open source content management system (CMS), which means that many developers work on developing the core of WordPress. At the same time, many developers and companies offer extensions… all this allows a great wealth of functionalities and uses but can also lead to compatibility problems and/or conflicts between extensions or between certain extensions and new versions of the core. WordPress.

As a reminder, maintaining a WordPress site includes all actions to ensure smooth and reliable operation of your WordPress site, while aiming to prevent errors and possible security problems. Since WordPress sites are frequently used for professional or commercial purposes, it is essential to keep them in good working order. And if you need more arguments we give you some below:

Avoiding breakdowns: it seems obvious, but it’s still the basics… an unmaintained site can crash and no one likes that (and especially not the user who came right at that moment to ask you for advice, a quote or finalize your shopping cart).
Optimize performance: a maintained site is generally a more efficient site in terms of loading, SEO performance and compatibility with the extensions in place and therefore a more efficient and pleasant site to use overall (your servers and users will tell you THANKS).
Secure your site  : having a site is great, having a hacked site is still less fun! On this subject, regularly updating the core of WordPress and the various extensions in place helps reduce security vulnerabilities and therefore significantly reduces the possibilities of hacking or intrusion.

But why maintain a site created with WordPress?

The  aim of preventive maintenance  is to anticipate possible technical problems and reduce the probability of failure of a site or web application. Our preventive maintenance is made up of several elements: updating the WordPress core, updating the various extensions and plugins, daily backup of all elements, monitoring performance, availability and security . Preventive maintenance is carried out by our teams on a daily basis. We also complement this “human” monitoring by implementing specific software… the best of both worlds! Preventive maintenance operations may include (non-exhaustive list):

Core and extension updates:  These updates provide the latest improvements in terms of performance, security and compatibility.
Backups:  the objective of backups is to protect you against accidental loss of data or following hacking, a complete backup allowing rapid and complete recovery in the event of a problem.
Database Optimization:  Regular database maintenance can improve your site’s performance and reduce the risk of errors or issues related to data overload.
Security audits:  searching for potential vulnerabilities and breaches, in order to detect and correct them before they are exploited by malicious third parties.

The mission of corrective maintenance or intervention is to restore an application or website so that it functions correctly. Corrective maintenance operations are therefore one-off and take place when a malfunction is identified. Corrective maintenance may include actions of the type (non-exhaustive list):

Resolving bugs and errors:  such as display or loading problems, PHP errors, problems with permalinks or pages not found…
Backups:  the objective of backups is to protect you against accidental loss of data or following hacking, a complete backup allowing rapid and complete recovery in the event of a problem.
Restoring Backups:  If your site has been compromised or damaged, it is crucial to be able to restore it from a recent, working backup.
Performance improvement:  with the aim of identifying and then correcting the performance bottlenecks and weak points of your site.

And what about evolutionary maintenance in all of this? Evolutionary maintenance is focused on the future. This type of maintenance aims to make your site or web application evolve, either in order to improve performance or to offer new features to users. Here are also some examples of evolutionary maintenance actions (non-exhaustive list):

Implementation of new features:  this may involve adding a new plugin or module to your site, integrating a new payment solution, setting up a registration management system, etc.
Design overhaul:  websites must regularly be updated in terms of design and ergonomics, in order to meet user expectations and remain competitive in the online market.
SEO optimization:  continuous improvement of your natural referencing strategy will allow you to attract more qualified visitors and boost the visibility of your site. This includes optimizing title tags, writing attractive meta-descriptions, improving internal networking and producing relevant and regular content.
Improving accessibility:  by making your website compliant with accessibility standards for people with disabilities, you will promote an inclusive and rewarding user experience for all your visitors.

For these last two types of maintenance (corrective and progressive), our team intervene on request, on the basis of an indentified problem or requirement.

How much does it cost to maintain a WordPress site?

To answer this question, we must already differentiate preventive maintenance which is carried out on a daily basis from preventive and progressive maintenance which is carried out occasionally when a problem or need arises.

Concerning preventive maintenance our entry price is €69 excluding tax per month . This amount can then vary depending on the complexity of the site (type of site, theme used, page builder used, extensions used, quality of the elements in place, current stability of the site, etc.). We adjust our price after carrying out an initial quality diagnosis of the site or web application.

Concerning corrective or progressive maintenance, our price is directly linked to the expressed need, we therefore set it according to the elements to be corrected and/or developed.

Can you maintain any WordPress site?

Well, no surprise… yes! Any site can be (and must be) maintained to ensure optimal operation and avoid slowness, outages and/or hacks.

Showcase site, e-commerce site using the WooCommerce extension or another e-commerce extension, personal or professional blog, site factory, portfolio, announcement site or even community site… any WordPress site perhaps ( and must be, we repeat) maintained!